The Best Hotels Near El Carreter, by the Record
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Seven pools and no beach access for a mile and a half: the Costa Blanca's overdevelopment problem is, in a roundabout way, the reason this Bali-style resort exists. The rooms lean into a Far East fantasy convincingly enough that the Mediterranean glimpsed in the distance feels like a mild surprise. It sits near the Terra Mitica theme park and stays deliberately removed from the coastal chaos it was built to ignore.
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A golf resort sitting inside the Albufera national park, with the Mediterranean on one side and a course widely considered among the finest on the continent on the other. The building is all modernist angles and big glass, and many rooms have balconies that face straight out to sea. Non-golfers get a spa, a gym, and a Mediterranean restaurant, so there's no real excuse not to come along.
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A rooftop pool overlooking Castillo de Santa Bárbara is a reasonable argument for booking a room anywhere. This five-star boutique hotel is a former Dominican convent, and the stone walls and arched windows make the Hospes group's signature white-on-dark-wood calm feel genuinely monastic. There's a fitness center, sauna, library, and a restaurant. Madrid weekenders fill most of the rooms, which tells you something about the vibe.